Hybrid utterances

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The following are phrases uttered by the Cylon Hybrid heard by Gaius Baltar.

  • Two protons expelled at each coupling site creates the mode of force, the embryo becomes a fish that we don't enter until a plate, we're here to experience evolve the little toe, atrophy, don't ask me how I'll be dead in a thousand light years, thank you, thank you. Genesis turns to its source, reduction occurs stepwise though the essence is all one. End of line. FTL system check, diagnostic functions within parameters repeats the harlequin the agony exquisite, the colors run the path of ashes, neuronal network run fifty-two percent of heat exchanger cross-collateralized with hyper-dimensional matrix, upper senses, repair ordered relay to zero zero zero zero (Torn).
  • Mists of dreams drip along the nascent echo and love no more. End of line.
  • The five lights of the apocalypse rising struggling towards the light, the sins revealed only to those who enter the temple only to the chosen one. (Staring at Baltar:) The chosen one. The chosen one. The chosen one. The chosen one.
  • One degree angle nominal. Seascape portrait of the woman child cavern of the soul. Under pressure-heat ratio ides of evolutions have buried their fears.
  • Gestalt therapy and escape clauses.
  • Throughout history the nexus between man and machine has spun some of the most dramatic, compelling and entertaining fiction.[1]
  • (Grasping Baltar) Intelligence. A mind that burns like a fire.
  • Find the hand that lies in the shadow of the light. In the eye of the husband of the eye of the cow (The Passage). [2]

First Hybrid[edit]

The first Hybrid also says several prophetic phrases, although his are far more coherent (Razor).

  • At last, they’ve come for me. I feel their lives, their destinies spilling out before me. The denial of the one true path, played out on a world not their own, will end soon enough. Soon there will be four, glorious in awakening, struggling with the knowledge of their true selves. The pain of revelation bringing new clarity and in the midst of confusion, he will find her. Enemies brought together by impossible longing. Enemies now joined as one. The way forward at once unthinkable, yet inevitable. And the fifth, still in shadow, will claw toward the light, hungering for redemption that will only come in the howl of terrible suffering. I can see them all. The seven, now six, self-described machines who believe themselves without sin. But in time, it is sin that will consume them. They will know enmity, bitterness, the wrenching agony of one splintering into many. And then, they will join the promised land, gathered on the wings of an angel. Not an end, but a beginning.
  • Kara Thrace will lead the human race to its end. She is the herald of the apocalypse, the harbinger of death. They must not follow her.
  • As my own existence comes to a close, only to begin anew, in ways uncertain.
  • All this has happened before, and it will happen again...again...again...again...again...again...again...

References[edit]

  1. This "fourth wall" dialogue references the drama of man/machine conflicts in science fiction as seen in the Battlestar series' themselves as well as movies and novels such The Terminator, I, Robot and The Matrix.
  2. These two lines are quoted in the music for "Rapture" as theme for the Temple of Five and sung in Latin.